Bishop Marvin Frank Thomas Sr. comes to Memphis and the CME Church’s First Episcopal District at a pivotal time in politics and in history.
“I have come here knowing who Memphis is and what Memphis means,” said Thomas. “I come...
Count the Rev. Jeffrey Williams among the local pastors who – despite dwindling attendance – is rock-solid sure that the church will increasingly become a place of refuge in the troubled times ahead.
Such assuredness is rooted in a faith...
Greater Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and a circle of associates made wider by the Rev. John Lee Payne, the church’s longtime pastor, are mourning his death at 87.
Rev. Payne died Monday after going into the hospital on the Saturday...
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Vinvecca B. Gray will be officially installed as the senior pastor at Golden Leaf Church, 1439 N. Hollywood, on April 7 at 3 p.m.
“I am still in awe (as to) what God has done,” said...
Churches have traditionally catered to its more seasoned members in the past, with younger churchgoers waiting in the wings to be seen and heard. Millennials are waiting no longer, forcing churches to either step up to include them or...
Kia Moore was the first woman licensed to preach at her home church, which was founded by slaves.
In 2013, she became the youngest person to pray on the Tennessee House Floor as the guest clergy member. And, she was...
A “complete gift.”
When you’ve known someone for nearly 30 of the 45 years of his life, that is how you sum up the time when the person was gospel-recording artist “Shea” Norman and you knew him as Deborah Thomas...
More African Americans are less likely to get married, and more than half who do will eventually get divorced, according to articles published in the National Library of Medicine.
Factors such as the breakdown of traditional-family patterns, the acceptance of...
In 1996, Melvin D. Watkins Jr., who had enlisted in the Air Force two years earlier after graduating from Hamilton High School, returned from a duty station in Turkey to attend the funeral of his grandmother. As the eulogy...
Closed for two-plus years out of concern about the pandemic, Old Nonconnah Missionary Baptist Church recently resumed in-person services, celebrating its 152nd anniversary.
The congregation’s return to their worship home on Aug. 21 was a jubilant and memorable experience, one...